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The Yup'ik
Eskimo-Aleut Languages
Yupik Languages
Central Alaskan Yupik and Central Siberian Yupik
Acculturation
100
Which areas of Alaska do the Yup'ik inhabit?
Western, southwestern, and south central Alaska
100
How many branches is the Eskimo-Aleut language family broken up into?
Two
100
How many languages does the Yupik branch of the Eskimo languages contain?
Four
100
This language is spoken among the Yup’ik of southwestern Alaska and in communities inland up the Nushagak, Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers.
Central Alaskan Yupik language
100
What is acculturation?
A process by which a minority in an individual society assimilates into the majority of the society
200
What area of Russia do the Yup'ik inhabit?
Russian Far East
200
What are the two main branches of the Eskimo-Aleut language family?
Aleut language and the Eskimo languages
200
What are the languages of the Yupik branch of the Eskimo languages?
Alutiiq, Central Alaskan Yupik, Naukan, and Central Siberian Yupik
200
Central Alaskan Yupik is the most spoken of the four languages with this number of speakers out of the total population of 21,000
10,000
200
Who implemented programs that forced indigenous children to attend boarding schools from kindergarten to high school?
The Soviets
300
What does the word Yup’ik mean in the Yup’ik language?
‘‘real person’’
300
How many languages belong to the Aleut language family?
One
300
What are the two major dialects of the Alutiiq language?
Chugach and Koniag
300
Where is Central Siberian Yupik spoken?
St. Lawrence Island in Alaska and the southeast corner of the Chukchi Peninsula in Russia.
300
When the Yup'ik children returned most of them could not even remember how to what?
Speak their own native tongue
400
Which areas of Alaska do the majority of Yup'ik speakers live?
Primarily in the central and western portions of Alaska
400
How many branches are the Eskimo languages divided into?
Two
400
How many speakers of the Alutiiq language are living in the areas where it is spoken?
Only 400 out of the 3,000 people
400
How many people speak Central Siberian Yupik out of the population of 2,000?
1,300
400
By 1990, which Yup'ik age group were unable to understand even the gist of a Yup’ik conversation?11-20 age group
11-20 age group
500
As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the Yupik population in the United States was about?
24,000
500
What are the two branches of the Eskimo languages?
Yupik languages and the Inuit languages.
500
What age group do most of the speakers of the Alutiiq language belong to?
The average youngest speakers range from their late twenties to fifties or even sixties
500
How old are the youngest speakers of the Central Siberian Yupik language?
25 to 30
500
What is the percentage of the K-8 students in the Manokotak school being able to speak Yup'ik exclusively or combined with some English?
Seventy-eight Percent